arch-foen.
/ˈɑːtʃˈfəʊ/ Arch-enemy; spec. the Devil.
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the mind > emotion > hatred > enemy > [noun] > deadly enemy > chief enemy
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1615 T. Heywood Foure Prentises i, in Wks. (1874) II. 224 Oh that I could see..My Arch-foe.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 259 The arch foe subdu'd Or Captive drag'd in Chains. View more context for this quotation
1800 S. T. Coleridge tr. F. Schiller Piccolomini i. xii. 55 The arch-foe of his Emperor.
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